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CDC says roughly 4,100 people have been hospitalized or died with Covid breakthrough infections after vaccination

Rich Mendez - CNBC — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:13:09 +0000

KEY POINTS

4,115 people have been hospitalized or died with Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated.
The total number of individuals who died after contracting Covid-19 despite vaccination is 750.
76% of hospitalizations and deaths from breakthrough cases occurred in people over the age of 65.

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Allyson Black (R), a registered nurse, cares for COVID-19 patients in a makeshift ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center on January 21, 2021 in Torrance, California.

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More than 4,100 people have been hospitalized or died with Covid-19 in the U.S. even though they’ve been fully vaccinated, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So far, at least 750 fully vaccinated people have died after contracting COVID, but the CDC noted that 142 of those fatalities were asymptomatic or unrelated to Covid-19, according to data as of Monday that was released Friday.

The CDC received 3,907 reports of people who have been hospitalized with breakthrough COVID infections, despite being fully vaccinated. Of those, more than 1,000 of those patients were asymptomatic or their hospitalizations weren’t related to COVID-19, the CDC said.

“To be expected,” Dr. Paul Offit, a top advisor to the Food and Drug Administration on children’s vaccines told CNBC. “The vaccines aren’t 100% effective, even against severe disease. Very small percentage of the 600,000 deaths.”

Breakthrough cases are Covid-19 infections that bypass vaccine protection. They are very rare and many are asymptomatic. The vaccines are highly effective but don’t block every infection. Pfizer and Moderna’s phase three clinical studies found that their two-dose regimens were 95% and 94% effective at blocking Covid-19, respectively, while Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine was found to be 66% effective in its studies. All three, however, have been found to be extremely effective in preventing people from getting severely sick from COVID.

The CDC doesn’t count every breakthrough case. It stopped counting all breakthrough cases May 1 and now only tallies those that lead to hospitalization or death, a move the agency was criticized for by health experts.

Most Americans have received at least one shot of the two currently authorized mRNA vaccines. The U.S. has administered 178.3 million shots and fully vaccinated 46% of its population.

“You are just as likely to be killed by a meteorite as die from COVID after a vaccine,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California San Francisco, told CNBC. “In the big scheme of things, the vaccines are tremendously powerful.”

Efficacy rates decrease slightly for variants like alpha and delta, with studies indicating 88% efficacy against the delta strain after two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. It was unclear if any of the reported breakthrough cases were caused by variants.

In Israel and the United Kingdom, concerns about the delta variant are rising after growing reports of breakthrough infections.

Even with 80% of adults vaccinated, Chezy Levy, director-general of Israel’s Health Ministry, said the delta variant is responsible for 70% of new infections in the country. Levy also said that one-third of those new infections were in vaccinated individuals.

In the U.K., Public Health England released a report that found 26 out of 73 deaths caused by the delta variant occurred in fully vaccinated people from June 8 to June 14. Most of the deaths occurred in unvaccinated individuals.

“Determination of whether hospitalizations and deaths are more represented in immunocompromised patients and the type of vaccine received will be important for future guidance,” Chin-Hong said.

On June 7, the CDC received reports of 3,459 breakthrough cases that led to hospitalization or death. On June 18, that number was updated to 3,729, an increase of 270 cases. Today, the number stands at 4,115.

An overwhelming majority, 76%, of the hospitalizations and deaths from breakthrough cases occurred in people over the age of 65.

″We do not have the years and years of data we have for vaccines against other airborne pathogens — and therefore it is really essential that the CDC provides up to date reporting on breakthrough cases,” David Edwards, aerosol scientist and Harvard University professor, told CNBC.

The CDC says its numbers are “likely an undercount” of all COVID infections in vaccinated people because the data relies on passive and voluntary reporting.

— CNBC’s Berkeley Lovelace Jr. contributed to this report.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/covid-breakthrough-cases-cdc-says-more-than-4100-people-have-been-hospitalized-or-died-after-vaccination.html
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Boris Johnson is ‘hopeful’ coronavirus restrictions can be cautiously eased in coming weeks

Fionnula Hainey — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:40:23 +0000

The prime minister will be analyzing data on coronavirus case numbers, hospital admissions, deaths and the impact of the vaccine rollout ahead of his announcement on Monday.

The PM will set out his road map out of lockdown next week

Boris Johnson says he is “hopeful” coronavirus restrictions can be cautiously eased in the coming weeks, with vaccines providing “grounds for confidence”.

The prime minister, who will set out his ‘road map’ out of lockdown on Monday, told a Downing Street briefing he hoped the current national lockdown would be the last.

The Times newspaper has reported that preliminary data comparing elderly people who have received the vaccine with those who have not is starting to show it is cutting hospital admissions and deaths.

Ministers have already been given data showing vaccines are cutting illness by about two-thirds, while a separate study suggests jabs are reducing transmission, the paper reported.

The prime minister will be analyzing data on coronavirus case numbers, hospital admissions, deaths, and the impact of the vaccine rollout this week ahead of his announcement.

A Public Health England spokesman said: “It is too early to draw firm conclusions from our surveillance programme.

“We have been analyzing the data since the start of the vaccination programme rollout and will publish our findings in due course.”

Mr. Johnson said there were “grounds for confidence” that vaccines were helping to curb the spread of coronavirus, not just in protecting those who received the jab.

He told yesterday’s press conference: “We have some interesting straws in the wind, we have some grounds for confidence but the vaccinations have only been running for a matter of weeks.”

NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said the end of April target to vaccinate the estimated 17 million people in the next five priority groups has been set due to “likely vaccine supply”, but added “if supply increases then we think we can go faster”.

The PM was joined by Prof Chris Whitty and Chief Executive of the NHS in England, Sir Simon Stevens

He confirmed vaccines are being reserved for second booster doses, as he described the rollout of the vaccine programme as “two sprints” followed by a marathon.

In England, no decisions have been made on whether all pupils can return to school at the same time on March 8, he said.

It comes after reports suggested a staggered approach may be taken, with secondary schools going back a week later than primaries.

Meanwhile, the Scottish government is expected to make an announcement on the return to school of some pupils, including those aged between four and seven.

A new study by epidemiologists at the University of Warwick has suggested schools do not play a significant role in driving the spread of COVID-19 in the community.

Elsewhere, a study in Scotland has concluded “potentially significant risks of COVID-19 transmission” were found in pubs and bars across the country last summer despite the efforts of owners and government guidance.

The University of Stirling research, published in the Journal Of Studies On Alcohol And Drugs, is said to be the first in the world to examine the measures tackling coronavirus in licensed premises.

Business owners and representatives were interviewed before reopening to understand the challenges they faced, with researchers then visiting 29 premises for up to two hours while posing as customers.

A range of incidents with the potential to increase transmission risk were observed in all but three venues in the research carried out between May and August as bars began to reopen to the public.

Mass vaccine coverage and the use of rapid lateral flow testing is the favored approach to reopen “the toughest nuts to crack” such as nightclubs and theatres, according to the prime minister.

His suggestion was backed by the World Health Organisation’s special envoy on COVID-19, Dr. David Nabarro, who told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “The secret to getting life back to some degree of normality for most of us is going to be the availability of really reliable, super-quick tests.

“That will make movement so, so much easier.”

Source: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/boris-johnson-hopeful-coronavirus-restrictions-19846850

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MEASLES OUTBREAK: Global cases QUADRUPLE by 300 percent in 2019 – vaccine warning

Luke Hawker — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:49:15 +0000

SHOCKING figures reveal the number of measles cases around the world has quadrupled in the past year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed.

Preliminary data released from the global health agency shows the number of outbreaks has soared by 300 percent in the first three months of 2019 compared to the same period last year. Initial figures show the extent of the health crisis, with 112,163 reported cases of the disease already this year across 170 countries, compared to just 28,124 cases across 163 countries in 2018. In a statement the WHO said: “While this data is provisional and not yet complete, it indicates a clear trend.”

It added: “‘Many countries are in the midst of sizable measles outbreaks, with all regions of the world experiencing sustained rises in cases.”

Measles can be extremely dangerous if untreated and official figures show it claimed the lives of almost 110,000 people in 2017.

The most concerning aspect of the resurgence of the virus, is it has spread into countries with the highest vaccination rates, including the US.

The number of cases of measles has grown by 300 percent in 2019 (Image: GETTY)

The WHO said: “Spikes in case numbers have also occurred in countries with high overall vaccination coverage, including the United States of America as well as Israel, Thailand, and Tunisia, as the disease has spread fast among clusters of unvaccinated people.”

Meanwhile Africa has witnessed the most dramatic rise up 700 percent on the previous year.

Across the African continent the number of cases grew from 7,361 in the first quarter of 2018 to 59,943 in the first three months of 2019 .

However the world body stated the numbers may be even be far greater, since only one in 10 cases globally are reported.

In the UK the number of cases has indeed fallen, there has been 572 infections this year, compared to 767 in the same period in 2018, according the figures by Public Health England.

The outbreak of measles can be prevented using the MMR vaccine which was first introduced in 1963.

The MMR vaccine was introduced in 1963 (Image: GETTY)

In the UK the treatment is given to all children when they are one-years-old and then again when they are three-years-old.

The UN insist the deadly disease is “entirely preventable” with the right vaccines, however it is concerned that global immunization has “stalled” at 85 percent which is “still short of the 95% needed to prevent outbreaks”.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1115130/health-news-measles-disease-symptoms-world-health-organisation

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Untreatable ‘super gonorrhea’ case could be ‘tip of the iceberg’

Carmen M. Llona - Fox News — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:15:37 +0000

The medical community is sounding the alarm after a man in the U.K. has become the first patient with a type of gonorrhea infection that is not responding to the antibiotics commonly used to cure it.

Doctors are calling it the “worst-ever” case of the sexually transmitted disease, which hits approximately 78 million men and women every year.

According to the BBC, the unidentified man had a regular partner but picked up the disease earlier this year after a sexual encounter with a woman in South East Asia.

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“This is the first time a case has displayed such high-level resistance to both of these drugs and to most other commonly used antibiotics,” said Dr. Gwenda Hughes, from Public Health England, to the BBC.

For years now, doctors and scientists have been warning that the bacteria that cause gonorrhea are becoming more resistant to antibiotics.

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“The bacteria that cause gonorrhoea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them,” said Dr. Teodora Wi, Medical Officer, Human Reproduction, at World Health Organization (WHO).

Based on data pulled from 77 countries, WHO has found widespread resistance to older and cheaper antibiotics. Some countries – particularly high-income ones, where surveillance is best – are finding cases of the infection that are untreatable by all known antibiotics.

“These cases may just be the tip of the iceberg, since systems to diagnose and report untreatable infections are lacking in lower-income countries, where gonorrhea is actually more common,” Dr. Wi said in a report last year.

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The WHO lists decreasing condom use, increased urbanization and travel, poor infection detection rates and inadequate or failed treatment as contributors to the increase.

If left untreated, gonorrhea can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirths, severe eye infections in babies and infertility in both men and women.

In the United States, there are approximately 300,000 reported cases of gonorrhea each year. But because infected people often have no symptoms, the actual number of cases is likely closer to 600,000, according to Reuters.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/04/02/untreatable-super-gonorrhea-case-could-be-tip-iceberg.html

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The World’s First Case Of Drug-Resistant ‘Super Gonorrhea’ Has Been Confirmed In The U.K.

TIME — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:46:07 +0000

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